College of Life Sciences was re-organized in 1999. The college has about 150 faculty and staff members including 30 professors and 45 associate professors. Among them, one professor holds chief-scientist of the National Basic Research and Development Plan (973 Plan) and one wins a chair professorship of the “Cheung Kong Scholars Program”, Ministry of Education, China. Four professors are awarded by National Outstanding Young Scientists of China. Currently, about nearly 1000 full-time students register in the college for various programs, including 530 undergraduate students, 285 for master’s degree graduates, and 217 PhD candidates

The college presently has three departments: Department of Biological Science, Department of Biotechnology and Department of Bioinformatics, which provide students with a distinctive education and training in the life sciences. These departments have been qualified to function as National Teaching Bases for Biological Science and Biotechnology, respectively. The undergraduate students are required to complete 4 years of study and research training to obtain their BS degree. Their major courses include General Biology, Biochemistry, Cellular Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Animal or Plant Physiology and Bioinformatics etc. A series of optional courses that reflect the frontiers of biological sciences and technology, such as bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology, developmental biology, are also available. All students are encouraged to join a lab for research training after two years of study under the faculty’s guidance.

The college owns the State Key Discipline in Ecology and three Provincial Key Disciplines in Botany, Genetics and Microbiology, the State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, the State Conservation Center for Gene Resources of Endangered Wildlife, the Key Laboratory of Conservation Genetics and Reproduction for Endangered Wildlife of Education Ministry, and the Provincial Key Laboratory of Cell and Genetic Engineering. The college receives research funds from National Natural Science Foundation, National Science/Technology research and development programs, international cooperative research programs, and research and development programs from local governments and enterprises. Annual research budget of the college is around 35 million RMB and Annual publications in SCI are above 100. A haystack of scientific papers produced from the college has been published in the international top journals of the field, including Lancet, Plant Cell, Plant J, Plant Physiology, RNA, and so on.

Undergraduate Education
Biological Sciences
Biotechnology
Bio-informatics

Graduate Programs
Plant Science, Zoology, Microbiology, Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ecology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Physiology, Biophysics, Bioinformatics, Marine Biology

Main Research Fields

Institute of Plant Science

Functional Genomics and Molecular Physiology of Plant Nutrition and Stress Biology; Plant Root Developmental Biology; Plant Transformation; Plant Molecular Evolution, Biodiversity and Utilization of Natural Resources.

Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics

Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Extremophiles; Stem Cell and Embryonic Engineering; Exploration of Marine Genic Resources.

Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology

Molecular Ecology and Conservation Genetics of Endangered Animals and Plants; Ecological and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Endangered Wild Plants and Animals; Environmental and Ecological Evolution.

Institute of Microbiology

Exploration of Microbial Resources withstanding extreme environments; Genetic Engineering of Microbial Strains for Biological Control and Fermented Metabolites; Development of Microbial Products and Pesticides.

Institute of Biochemistry

Protein and Gene Engineering; Microbiological Biochemistry; Secondary metabolism; Bio- pharmaceutical Engineering.

Institute of Agro-Ecology and Eco-Engineering

Molecular Eco-physiology; Theory and Technology of Ecological Agriculture, Ecological Planning, Remediation and Engineering.

Contact us:
College of Life Sciences
Zhejiang University
Zhijingang Campus
Hangzhou, 310058, China
Tel: +86 571 88206487
Fax: +86 571 88206485
E-mail : clspwu@zju.edu.cn
http://www.cls.zju.edu.cn